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“we are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. as we were. as we are no longer. as we will one day not be at all.”

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Note: This will include a few releases from 2021 due to the pandemic/awards season 1.   Minari 2.   The Vast of Night 3.   First Cow 4.   I’m Thinking of Ending Things 5.   The Forty-Year-Old Version 6.   Palm Springs 7.   Sound of Metal 8.   Black Bear 9.   Nomadland 10.   One Night in Miami…

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11.   Bull 12.   Boys State 13.   Never Rarely Sometimes Always 14.   Tenet 15.   The White Tiger 16.   Let Him Go 17.   Mogul Mowgli 18.   Judas and the Black Messiah 19.   His House 20.   The King of Staten Island 21.   Wendy 22.   Mangrove 23.   Pieces of a Woman 24.   Possessor 25.   VFW 26.   The Short History of the Long Road 27.   The Mauritanian 28.   The Platform 29.   You Cannot Kill David Arquette 30.   The Lodge 31.   Swallow 32.   Soul 33.   Wolfwalkers 34.   Run 35.   The World to Come 36.   Time 37.   Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom 38.   Bacurau 39.   The Assistant 40.   Big Time Adolescence 41.   I Care a Lot 42.   MLK/FBI 43.   The Other Lamb 44.   FP2: Beats of Rage 45.   The Father 46.   Saint Maud 47.   Mank 48.   The Trial of the Chicago 7 49.   Our Friend 50.   Sweetheart 51.   Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) 52.   Hamilton 53.   The Rental 54.   1BR 55.   Guns Akimbo 56.   Alone 57.   Proxima 58.   Host 59.   Ordinary Love 60.   Greenland

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Do not worry about your contradictions — Persephone is both floral maiden and queen of death. You, too, can be both. 

LGBT+ Holiday films of 2020